Tony Lloyd

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Anthony Joseph Lloyd, known as Tony Lloyd, (born 25 February 1950, Manchester) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Manchester Central.

Lloyd was first returned to the British House of Commons at the 1983 general election, as Member of Parliament for Stretford. When constituency boundaries were revised for the 1997 general election, he transferred to the Manchester Central constituency, where he has been returned at subsequent elections.

When Labour was returned to office in 1997 under Tony Blair, Lloyd was appointed a junior minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under Robin Cook, but left the Government in the reshuffle in 1999. He remains a backbencher.

Since leaving the Government, his voting record shows a strong left-wing inclination, with him appearing as a rebel teller on several notable occasions. Lloyd joined the considerable number of Labour MPs in choosing to vote against government policy regarding the Iraq War, following this he sided with the sizable number of Labour MPs who rebelled against government policy to detain terror suspects for 90 days without trial, further, in 2007 Lloyd also voted against the renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System. Lloyd has also allied himself with other notable left wing causes, consistently voting in support of gay rights and against government policy to introduce student tuition fees.

He is also a Vice-President of the Western European Union. He became chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, which represents the concern of backbench MPs, on December 5, 2006, defeating incumbent Ann Clwyd who was perceived to be too close to Blair. [1]

Contributed chapters about John Robert Clynes and George Kelly, Labour Members of Parliament for Manchester elected in 1906, to Men Who Made Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Diane Hayter.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Winston Churchill		 Member of Parliament for Stretford
1983–1997		 Succeeded by
(constituency abolished)
Preceded by
Bob Litherland		 Member of Parliament for Manchester Central
1997 – present		 Incumbent
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